City incorporation has always had the same promoters and critics, but it usually revolves around those in an area feeling underrepresented and/or neglected by their county.  The other side of the coin: as more cities flee the governance of the county, those most often in the poorest areas are usually left in the lurch, with even fewer tax dollars to deal with the numerous problems that effect them.

But DeKalb continues to make it really difficult to justify anyone stay under county control.  To go along with the recently reported overpayment of contractors, fellow blogger John at Dunwoody North has been doing some excellent digging into the safety of county parks and passed along an email thread regarding neighboring Medlock Park, which he received by filing an open records request.

John informs us that the county claims to inspect all playgrounds on a weekly basis.  As the situation at Medlock Park shows (after the jump), that doesn’t seem to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »